Now called K'axob, this 800 B.C. Mayan community in northern Belize grew and prospered through Formative and Classic times. A millennial-long record of life has been investigated archaeologically by peeling back the closely stratified layers of homes. An accompanying CD includes comprehensive data sets, over 1,000 images, a tour of K'axob.

Jointly produced by the Musei Vaticani and Libreria Editrice Vaticana, the paintings of the Sistene Chapel are examined in relation to the theological interpretations prevailing in that period. Greek language text. 186 illus., most colour.

The excavations at the Graeco-Roman period Egyptian village of Karanis yielded thousands of artefacts. The Karanis material in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Library Papyrology Collection forms a unique body of information for understanding life in an agricultural village in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt.

Karanis in Egypt's Fayum region founded around 250BC housed a farming community with a diverse population and a complex material culture. It eventually proved to be an extraordinarily rich archaeological site, yielding tens of thousands of artefacts and papyri that provide a wealth of information about daily life in the Roman-period Egyptian town.

It was widely believed that the first inhabitants of the Cuzco Valley were farmers who lived in scattered villages and that there were no Archaic Period remains in the region, until a systematic survey of the valley, when numerous preceramic sites were found. This is the first overview of the Archaic Period (9000 - 2200 BC) in the Cuzco Valley.

Presents the results of a programme of survey and excavation conducted under the directorship of the author at the site of Kataret es-Samra, strategically located at the interface of the ghor and the zor of the Eastern Jordan Valley, to the north of the confluence of the Wadi Zarqa (Biblical Jabbok).

Newly edited and translated versions of three dynamic saints' lives, The Lives of Saints Katherine, Margaret and Juliana; a quirky but rhetorically persuasive guide to virginity, "Hali Meidenhad"; and a psychologically astute sermon, "Sawles Warde" ("The Guardianship of the Soul").

Remains of sculpture and fragments of an important inscription in the Old Phrygian language were found during excavations at the sixth century BC walled city on Kerkenes Mountain in Central Turkey. Illustrated with line drawings and photographs A Turkish summary is provided.

This volume is the first in a planned series of final reports on the Archaeological Expedition to Khirbat Iskandar and its Environs, Jordan, begun in 1981 by Principal Investigator, Suzanne Richard of Gannon University.